Google Drive isn’t the holy grail of personal cloud services. But, Google Drive’s introduction has forced all the other players to up their game. Microsoft added paid storage options to SkyDrive. Dropbox doubled the free storage you got for bringing friends and families on board. And, Amazon introduced a desktop client for its Amazon Cloud [...]
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Amazon tries to catch up in personal cloud storage and falls further behind
May 2nd, 2012 · Comments Off
Tags: Amazon · Business · Cloud Computing · Infrastructure · Internet · Network · Storage
The six best personal cloud storage choices for your stuff
April 9th, 2012 · Comments Off
Recently, Dropbox the popular cloud-storage company doubled the amount of free space you got for inviting friends to Dropbox. How much is that? For every friend you’d invite who installed Dropbox, you’d both get 500 more MBs of free space. With a free account, you can invite up to 32 people for a grand total [...]
Tags: Apple · Business · Canonical · Cloud Computing · Google · Infrastructure · Microsoft · Storage
Red Hat moves into Big Data with Storage Software Appliance
December 8th, 2011 · Comments Off
One of the reasons why Red Hat will be the first billion dollar open-source company is that the company has also looked beyond just Linux to what you can do with Linux on the cloud and thin-client desktops; Java Enterprise Edition and now, with the release of Red Hat Storage Software Appliance, big data. Big [...]
Tags: Business · Infrastructure · Linux · Operating System · Red Hat · Server · Storage
The ten ugliest thumb USB drives of all
December 8th, 2011 · Comments Off
There’s something about USB thumb drives that bring out the worst of tech. design. More >
Tags: Entertainment · Infrastructure · Storage
Everything You Wanted to Know About USB 3.0, But Were Afraid to Ask
October 10th, 2011 · Comments Off
If you’ve been in the computer business for a while, you can painfully remember when serial RS-232 ports could barely handle 28Kbps (kilobytes per second). The RS-232 serial port standard was loose enough that you could have “compatible” devices that you could never, ever physically connect with each other. How things have changed! Now, USB [...]
Tags: Desktop · Infrastructure · Storage
